Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-52 (mahogany finish), manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg

File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-52 (mahogany finish), manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg, not featured

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 23 Jun 2012 at 08:07:03 (UTC)
Visit the nomination page to add or modify image notes.

Featured picture candidates/File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-52 (mahogany finish), manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-52 (mahogany finish), manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg

•  Info created by Steinway & Sons - uploaded by Fanoftheworld - nominated by Hereiamfriends -- Hereiamfriends (talk) 08:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
  • Picture of an upright piano built in New York City by the world-famous piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons. This is a fantastic picture, must have required a great deal of work, is aesthetically pleasing, and is technically excellent.
    • The picture is legally uploaded, see Template:OTRS ticket and User:Fæ's comment below. --Hereiamfriends (talk) 18:26, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Hereiamfriends (talk) 08:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment Please can an OTRS reviewer check the permission email very carefully. The license is not consistent with the terms and conditions of the source: "You may not sell or modify the materials or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the materials in any way for any public or commercial purpose.". --99of9 (talk) 12:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

• I'm also concerned that the uploader is indef-blocked. --99of9 (talk) 12:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:OTRS ticket covers 3 images File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model 1098, manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg, File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-52 (mahogany finish), manufactured at Steinway's factory in New York City.jpg and File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-132, manufactured at Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.png. The email is from an address under the domain steinway.com. No special notes about verification have been made on the ticket, though a thank you reply sent to the given address was dispatched on 8 March 2012 @15:14:26 and there has been no reply or complaint to that email. The same email contact and name is used by Bloomberg and other independent websites as the official Steinway press contact. The release statement is as follows:

Email statement

On behalf of the piano manufacturing company Steinway & Sons I hereby affirm that Steinway & Sons is the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the following work: - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steinway_&_Sons_upright_piano,_mod[..] (A black Steinway & Sons upright piano with three pedals, model 1098, on white background). - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steinway_&_Sons_upright_piano,_mod[..] (A mahogany Steinway & Sons upright piano with three pedals, model K-52, on white background). - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steinway_&_Sons_upright_piano,_mod[..] (A black Steinway & Sons upright piano with two pedals, model K-132, on white background). Steinway & Sons agree to publish the work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Steinway & Sons acknowledge that by doing so Steinway & Sons grants anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. Steinway & Sons is aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. Steinway & Sons is aware that Steinway & Sons always retain copyright of its work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen by Steinway & Sons. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by Steinway & Sons. Steinway & Sons is aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and Steinway & Sons reserves the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc. Steinway & Sons acknowledge that Steinway & Sons cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

I note that Template:OTRS ticket covers File:Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, model D-274, manufactured at Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.png and is the only other ticket on the OTRS database from this email address. --Fæ (talk) 15:24, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

• Great to here that the picture is legally uploaded. Thank you, User:Fæ, for the reply. --Hereiamfriends (talk) 18:17, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
• Thanks Fae, that OTRS looks good. --99of9 (talk) 01:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

•  Support Cathy Richards (talk) 15:32, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 19:30, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nominator is another of many Steinway-promoting sockpuppets. Uploader is a globally blocked Steinway promoter and incorrigible puppetmaster. The case page at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fanoftheworld gives a hint of the extent of the damage, including the pushing of Steinway images to replace ones by other piano companies, using multiple language Wikipedias to accomplish the task. This particular image was initially uploaded by Fanoftheworld, the first recognized puppetmaster, and was nominated by a sock: Hereiamfriends. I should hate to see harmful sockpuppetry rewarded by achieving a Featured Picture. --Binksternet (talk) 01:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 19:36, 23 June 2012 (UTC)